The events that took place in Wilmington, North Carolina, in 1989 have two contradicting names, The Wilmington, N.C, Race Riots, or The Wilmington Massacre.The two names represent the two contradicting approaches which determine the nature of this event.Therefore, if one is interested to speak about what happened in Wilmington he needs to be aware that from the very beginning, referring to these events in either name entails taking sides. This is the first encounter with the power of language, and the written word in shaping socio-political ideology and historical reality. On November 13th , an African American woman pleads for relief from the president, uses the argument of slavery, saying it was convenient to deprive her people of liberty and enslave them, however now after abolition when they are economically independent it infuriates the whites.With black representative in the municipality, the black accumulation …show more content…
He also blames the North for not opening their gates for the Southern blacks and thus entrapping them, leaving them to the mercy of the conservative South which ,despite attempts from the Populists to regulate a new order, will eventually rise from the ashes of the civil war and oppress them anew. In the momentarily comfort of having the Populist, Dr. S.P. Wright, for mayor, and several black as officeholders, Manly allows himself to express his interpretation of the white’s accusation of blacks in rape. Manly highlights the contrast between the white propaganda’s stereotypical portrayal of the brutal black who engages with white women , against the reality where white women voluntarily prefer their company, not as opposed to the white man, but precisely because they see them like any